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AN: The pokémon in this story can have 5 moves instead of 4.
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Update: I'm busy making a map of the region! The map is not final yet, and I use a free site so some of the colours or shapes are not really right, like the hill range being sand coloured instead of the green it is meant to be. Still, I hope it can give you all a rough idea of the world :)
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Lexi opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was her wooden heracross lamp, which had turned orange in the morning sunlight. To her left was the noctowl alarmclock, which was making an awful lot of noise. Lexi turned it off and got out of bed. Her entire room was filled with fresh air, coming from the window she had forgot to close yesterday. Yesterday. It had been her birthday yesterday, and that meant that she was finally old enough to start her journey. She quickly put her light brown hair in a ponytail and went downstairs to get some breakfast.
The smell of toasted bread and fresh honey filled her nose as she came down. Her mother was busy pouring warm Moomoo Milk in cups on the table. ''Good morning honey, I put your backpack next to the door so you wouldn't forget it. But could you feed the miltank's before you go?''
''Sure, and thanks mom.'' Lexi replied, taking a cup of milk. Lexi's mother ran her hand through her daughters uncombed brown hair and walked back to the counter, were she picked up a pair of glasses. ''Your father forgot his spare glasses again.'' she said, shaking her head but smiling. Lexi walked up to her mother and gave her a hug. ''Don't forget to call every now and then. We'll miss you.''
Lexi gave her mom another hug and a kiss on the cheek before picking up her blue backpack. It was really warm outside and all of the miltank's were lying on the grass. Lexi walked past Cilly, her favorite miltank, and stroked her back before walking to the stables.
All those years she had lived on their little farm, helping with the miltank's, riding the ponyta's. She even got to help with their tauros a few weeks ago. But now she was going to start her own journey, just like her parents did before her. They had given her a lot of advice and taught her many things that were very useful to know as a trainer, or at least that's what they told her.
As Lexi picked up an old red bucket to put the feed into, she noticed a thin rope. It went from the buckets, through the hay, passed the miltank-food and ended at one of the stalls. She could hear the pounding of hooves on the ground and saw a light flicker on the walls. Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. ''Aren't you going to follow it?'' Her mother pointed to the rope. When Lexi got to the stall she saw a big ponyta running circles inside the stable.
''It's one of my best foals. I think it would be a great starter Pokémon. Lots of potential but no hotheadedness. So, if you want, you can have her.''
Lexi looked at the young ponyta. It was active, but not hyper, and looked very curious. Her body looked slender but strong and she had beautiful brown eyes.
''Hey girl,'' Lexi walked up to the ponyta and began stroking her head. It gave a soft nicker and stepped closer.
''She's beautiful. I'm going to name her Serafine, after our first miltank.'' Her mother gave her Serafine's pokéball and after one more hug, Lexi and Serafine walked to the gate. There Lexi looked back at her house one more time before turning around and heading towards the lab of Professor Redwood.
While following the path to the pokémon laboratory Lexi started to get a little nervous. She wouldn't see her town for a long time. The houses of her neighbors she had walked past every time she went into town, the pokémon she played with and of course her own home with her mom and dad.
As Lexi passed a garden filled with big red flowers, she looked up and saw Mrs. Bude waving at her while holding a sad looking tulip. Mrs. Bude walked to the gate of the white fence surrounding her garden and held out her hand. ''Hello there Lexi Blue! I heard you're going on your journey today!'' she said happily while Lexi shook her hand. ''Be sure to catch a magikarp and come back to join the annual Shinka suru festival.''
The Shinka suru festival was a big thing in Filium town. Every year trainers from all over the Uniqi Region came to let their magikarp evolve into a gyarados. They would fight the whole day and night till every last one of them had evolved. The town got decorated with blue ribbons and the lights would, that one day, all change to blue instead of yellow.
Suddenly Mrs. Bude stopped and excitedly pointed to Serafine. ''Is that your companion? What a cute ponyta! I think you're going to have a good time together. Well, I need to go back to my garden. Good luck you two!'' and with a last wave of the flower Mrs. Bude went to the back of her house.
Lexi had reached the middle of her town. Not far away, next to a silver gyarados statue, stood the pokémon laboratory. The building was yellow with a grey roof and didn't look much bigger than some of the houses next to it. But Lexi knew that there was a big area behind the laboratory, where they kept all the pokémon.
Lexi saw a red haired boy leaving the lab with a pokéball in his hand and a big smile on his face. It was Nat Peton, he had been a good friend of Lexi when they were kids. He would help out on the farm and they would have sleepovers. When he became friends with a girl who had just moved into town, he didn't come around as much and eventually they stopped talking. Lexi looked at the pokéball Nat had in his hand. That had to be a cyndaquil, Nat always said that he wanted a cyndaquil with him on his journey.
Lexi looked back to the pokémon laboratory, in the door opening stood a small man with brown hair and glasses, in a white lab coat. ''Lexi! You're exactly on time. Come, let's go inside.''
''I know you have worked with pokémon before but that is not the same as having your own pokémon. A pokémon is a big responsibility, never forget that, it needs food and training but also time to recover and mental stimulation.'' Professor Redwood said, pointing to her ponyta, while leading her past shelves with an uncountable amount of books on them.
Serafine's hooves gave a loud clatter against the smooth floor, making it more difficult to hear what Prof. Redwood was saying and Lexi wondered if she should retrieve her ponyta, but she liked having the pokémon beside her.
Eventually they entered a room with grey walls. There was a big computer in the corner and in the middle of the room stood two white tables. One of them had 2 pokéballs on it. Lexi followed Professor Redwood to the other table which had several small devices neatly stacked on top of each other.
''This is something that all travelers get nowadays'' Prof. Redwood said, handing her a small dark blue colored device. ''It's called a pokédex, we got the newest models delivered yesterday. I'm pretty sure you already know all the pokémon here, but as you travel you will encounter many kinds of pokémon you have never seen before. The pokédex is an encyclopedia with every pokémon in it. It can tell you information about the Pokémon you point it to, and it automatically adds new data. But that's not all, it can also be used as a phone and works as your trainer ID.'' Lexi looked at it and pointed it to her ponyta.
''Ponyta, the Fire Horse Pokémon, about an hour after birth, its fiery mane and tail grow out, giving it an impressive appearance. Ponyta is world-class jumper and its hooves are harder than diamonds. This Pokémon known moves are: Growl, Tackle and Tail Whip. Female.'' said a robotic man-like voice. Prof. Redwood smiled and handed her a couple more things.
''Here are some pokéballs. Oh, and here is a badge case you can put your badges in.'' Lexi put everything in her backpack. ''I look forwards to hearing about your adventures when you come back, good luck.''
As Lexi walked out of the lab with her ponyta beside her, she smiled at her pokémon and pointed to forest in front of them. ''That's Dipter Forest. We have to go through it to get to Diptera Town, and then through another forest to Crocuta Town. That's where the first Gym is''.
Lexi and Serafine walked for a while before taking a rest near a lake. While her ponyta started grazing Lexi closed her eyes for a minute and enjoyed the peace. She felt excited and could not wait to travel and see new things. This lake was nothing new, she had played here a thousand times. Mostly with her parents but sometimes with friends. There was also a wild wurmple she used to watch as it came to drink from the lake. Till she got ill one day and had to stay in bed for a week. When she got better her dad had told her the wurmple had already evolved twice, and flew away as a dustox.
Just when she opened her eyes and planned to call Serafine so they could continue, she heard a noise next to her. A spinarak jumped out of the bushes and looked a little surprised seeing them, but it recovered quickly and started to attack. ''Serafine use Tackle!'' Lexi shouted and Serafine ran towards the spinarak, which shot out a weird silk substance from its jaws. But Serafine jumped away and, after moving her head to the side, slammed into it with her shoulder, causing it to fall to the ground and faint. ''Good job Serafine, our first fight! And we won!'' Lexi hugged her pokémon and the two continued with new energy.
Lexi wandered through the forest for quite some time, continuously finding spinarak to fight. Lexi loved the feeling of winning, it was like she and Serafine were unbeatable.
''Another one, Tackle it Serafine!'' Lexi cheered. But she was surprised when it took Serafine four Tackles to take it down.
''Hey girl, what's wrong?'' Lexi walked to Serafine, who was still panting. She ran her hands over Serafine's body, checked her hooves and legs, but couldn't find anything wrong. Serafine nudged Lexi's arm and let out a big sigh.
''Ohh,'' Lexi eyes widened in realization. ''You're just tired. I'm sorry, I got so caught up in winning that I forgot that this must be exhausting for you.'' Lexi pulled Serafine into a hug. ''Don't worry, we'll call it quits for today. From now on we are just going to have a nice walk.
They reached Diptera Town as the sun started to go down. Lexi entered a red building and walked up to a woman with pink hair. ''Hello, and welcome to the Pokémon Center. I'm Nurse Joy, how can I help you?''
''Hello, my name is Lexi. I wondered if you could check my pokémon. We had a some fights in the forest a while ago and I want to be sure she's alright.'' Lexi said while handing her the pokéball. ''Sure, just follow me.'' Nurse Joy put the pokéball in small machine and it started beeping after a minute or two.
''Your ponyta is healthy, just hungry and tired. I will give you some oran berries,'' Nurse Joy handed Lexi some blue fruit,'' and I'm afraid we're full at the moment but there is a hotel across the street were you can rest. '' Lexi thanked her and went to the hotel.
The lobby of the hotel was very big and fancy. The light grey walls had multiple expensive looking paintings on it and every few feet hung a light covered with yellow fabric with fringes. The beige marble floor was partially covered with a carpet, which went between the groups of red chairs, and led to the check-in desk. Lexi took out her pokédex when she saw some unfamiliar pokémon.
There was a girl with a 'magnemite' looking at one of the paintings, a man with a very big 'politoed' making a mess on one of the tables and next to a boy with a hoothoot on his shoulder stood a woman that was feeding her 'delcatty'. The woman with the delcatty saw Lexi staring and walked up to her. She was very tall with long blonde hair and a dark red outfit. Her hands were covered with bright pink gloves. The delcatty that followed her was decorated with two red straps around its hind legs.
''Good afternoon girl, you seem a little lost.''
''I'm not really lost, it's just my first day of traveling.'' Lexi answered nervously, she could feel her face getting red.
The woman's eyes started sparkling behind her red glasses and she smiled at Lexi while walking away, gesturing her to follow. '' Oh, it seems only yesterday I started with my first journey. If you want I can show you around a little, I'm Olive by the way.'' Olive said, not waiting for an answer. She continued walking a little longer and stopped at the Pokémon Center .
''This is the Pokémon Center, you can heal your pokémon in there for free. They also have rooms where trainers can sleep.'' After saying that Olive started walking again till Lexi saw a blue building. ''This is the Poké Mart. It's a store that sells supplies necessary for pokémon training.'' Olive entered the building and continued explaining.
''You can buy all kinds of pokéballs to capture pokémon, potions to heal your pokémon, but also food, vitamins, and all sorts of other things you might need. Not all Poké Marts sell the same items, some even sell pokémon dolls.'' Olive walked out of the Poké Mart and Lexi quickly followed. She was happy that someone was showing her around, but it was a bit much and Olive wasn't slowing down.
''So you just started your journey, what is your plan? Are you going to be a Coordinator, or a Breeder, or are you going to enter the Pokémon League? It's so exciting, you're going to learn everything about how to work with pokémon and how to care for them! My first pokémon was a squirtle, such a smart little thing, I learned a lot from him. What do you have?'' Olive stopped walking and turned to Lexi.
''Well, I have a ponyta'' Lexi said, grabbing her pokéball. But Olive had already started walking again. ''And I don't really have a plan yet. At the moment I'm just going to collect badges and get stronger. But I don't know if I really want to go as far as entering the League.''
The wind was getting colder and Lexi was tempted to let Serafine out of her pokéball, just as she was about to throw it Olive started talking again. ''You know,'' she said with friendly smile. ''I already had a plan when I was your age. It is hard to just make something up on the spot, you need to know what you are going to work towards on your journey. Otherwise, well, it's kind of useless isn't it.''
Lexi suddenly felt really embarrassed. Did she really need a plan….was this useless? Her parents had traveled the same way, but, had they done it the wrong way? Lexi just wanted to go back to her room and away from Olive. But she wasn't comfortable telling Olive this. No, she just had to wait.
After showing her a couple more things Olive went back to the hotel and said goodbye. Lexi went up to her room, let Serafine out of her pokéball and brushed her. She started to feel homesick. How could she ever travel around the world if she already had trouble now. This was her first town, a town she already somewhat knew, and she was just a couple of miles from home. Serafine noticed her sadness and put her head on Lexi's shoulder. This made her smile. ''Thanks Serafine, come, let´s go to bed. We'll see what tomorrow brings.''